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Personality Factors among Internet Addicted and Non-internet Addicted Iranian and Indian Students


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1 Department of Psychology, L.V.H. College, Panchavati, Nasik-3.
2 Pune University, faculty member of Azad University, Eslam Abad Garb., Iran, Islamic Republic of
     

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This study was aimed at finding out differences in terms of personality factors of internet addicted and non-addicted students. In this study both male and female Iranian and Indian students were compared on dependents variables. The main objectives of this study were "To study the differences if any, in personality of internet addicted and nonaddicted students."

The instruments used to measure the variables were: Internet Addiction Test (IAT) by Young (1998) to measure the internet addiction and NEO Five-Factor Inventory-R by Costa and McCrae (1992) for measuring the personality factors. The results indicated that: Internet addicted students were higher on neuroticism, and lower on extroversion, agreeableness, openness to experience and conscientiousness than Non-internet addicted students. Iranian students were higher on extroversion, agreeableness, and openness to experience and conscientiousness and lower on Neuroticism than Indian students. Female students were higher on neuroticism and lower on extroversion and conscientiousness than male students and there is no any difference in terms of agreeableness and openness to experience between male students and female students.


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Personality, Internet addiction, Gender, Nationality, NEO-FFI
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Authors

V. R. Shinde
Department of Psychology, L.V.H. College, Panchavati, Nasik-3.
Shima Parandin
Pune University, faculty member of Azad University, Eslam Abad Garb., Iran, Islamic Republic of

Abstract


This study was aimed at finding out differences in terms of personality factors of internet addicted and non-addicted students. In this study both male and female Iranian and Indian students were compared on dependents variables. The main objectives of this study were "To study the differences if any, in personality of internet addicted and nonaddicted students."

The instruments used to measure the variables were: Internet Addiction Test (IAT) by Young (1998) to measure the internet addiction and NEO Five-Factor Inventory-R by Costa and McCrae (1992) for measuring the personality factors. The results indicated that: Internet addicted students were higher on neuroticism, and lower on extroversion, agreeableness, openness to experience and conscientiousness than Non-internet addicted students. Iranian students were higher on extroversion, agreeableness, and openness to experience and conscientiousness and lower on Neuroticism than Indian students. Female students were higher on neuroticism and lower on extroversion and conscientiousness than male students and there is no any difference in terms of agreeableness and openness to experience between male students and female students.


Keywords


Personality, Internet addiction, Gender, Nationality, NEO-FFI

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